Rationing of Nursing Care: Exploring the Views of Care Workers and Residents in a Swiss Nursing Home

Care workers in nursing homes cannot always carry out all necessary nursing interventions because of time constraints, lack of resources, or other organizational or personal factors. This failure is included within the concept of unfinished nursing care, which comprises missed care, implicit rationing of nursing care, and care left undone.1 In nursing homes, residents' pronounced dependency on physical, psychological, and sociocultural care makes them especially vulnerable to implicit rationing, which intensifies with cognitive impairment and social isolation.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research